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Sedes imperii - political, economic and cultural centers of tetrarchy
Motlochová, Alžběta ; Tůmová, Helena (advisor) ; Tušlová, Petra (referee)
This thesis aims for the comparation of historical, economic and cultural factors that are related to the establishment of tetrarchy in the year 285 AD and to the constitution of sedes imperii as settlement cities for individual emperors, especially with regard to emperor Diocletian's private palace in Split. A part of the thesis includes the analysis of the economic background and buildings near the cities, such as villae rusticae, and their effects on the development of the cities and economic prosperity in a broad region. In other part, the thesis focuses on the ideology and typology of self-representation of the emperors from earlier tetrarchy, as well as on the contrasts between the official emperor's cult and the personality cult of each individual emperor in their settlement cities, the latter being represented for example by triumphal arches or private emperor mausoleums. In the final part of the thesis there is a schema of transformations of sedes imperii after the decline of the first tetrarchy and in the time of Constantine's dynasty that follows. Key words sedes imperii, economic background, tetrarchy, Diocletian's palace, villa rustica, imperial ideology, Thessaloniki, Nicomedia, Split
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